The Stylesetter-Approved Guide to Spring

We asked some of our favorite tastemakers what they are looking forward to this season.

We asked some of our favorite tastemakers what they are looking forward to this spring. Here, we put together their advice on everything from the best trends in fashion and interiors to the most interesting places to visit this season.

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Laura Vinroot Poole

"Spending time with my family and appreciate the luxury of being home," says stylish and sophisticated Charlotte shop owner, Laura Vinroot Poole, on how she will spend the extra daylight spring brings.

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Must-see Exhibit

"Women Of Vision : National Geographic Photographers on Assignment at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte opens on March 26th. I've seen a sneak preview and it is truly extraordinary."

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Must-Have Beauty Product

"In warmer weather, I like to switch to all my beach favorites. Skin Trip body lotion is a coconut dream and my beautiful new Irene Neuwirth fragrance makes me think of Hawaiian Tropic and lazy days at the beach."

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Home Update

"I switch my Diptyque candles from warm, cozy Maquis and Oppapanox to fresh, clean Oyedo, Cypress, and Feuille de Lavande. Scent can be completely transporting and I find it to be the fastest way to get in the spirit of Spring."

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Favorite Springtime Flower

"Cut peonies and anemones and camellias and forsythia in my garden."

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Farmer's Market Finds

"While I've loved the past few months of intensely bitter greens and sweet potatoes, I'm ready for massive purple asparagus, sweet peas and wild strawberries from my favorite local farmers. I also plant a massive herb garden and can't wait for the weather to break so I can get started on it."

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Favorite Eats

"I'm pretty obsessed with anything Yotam Ottolenghi and have been working my way through his new cookbook, Jerusalem, all winter (I think my family is getting weary of tahini, sumac, and za'atar.) His orange almond cake is pretty close to heaven for me."

"Spring for me is by far the most exciting and my favorite season," says Carolina Irving, newly named Creative Director of Home at Oscar de la Renta. "There is definitely a sense of anticipation that tells you that spring is on its way. It's like a new dawn."

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Must-see Exhibit

"I just saw the Dries Van Noten exhibition at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris which is a total triumph. It is unlike any fashion exhibit, as what they are showing is the world and sources of inspiration of the designer. I [also]can't wait for the V&A show on Italian glamour (post war fashion), and also the Veronese show at the National Gallery in London."

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Spring Getaway

"I will go to Portugal which I love. Lisbon is one of my favorite cities. It is at once extremely old fashioned but deceptively modern and sophisticated. Then I'll go south to the Alentejo region which has the most beautiful landscape, a countryside made of cork oaks and umbrella pines, and of course, 50kms of pristine and empty beaches."

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Key Fashion Accessory

"I will immediately bring out my espadrilles and buy a pair of bright green penny loafers from Church's."

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Favorite Eats

"I'll start drinking green juices in the morning, and eating lots of raw vegetables with bagna cauda (anchovy dip!) and I will put a ton of herbs in everything I eat."

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Favorite Springtime Flower

"Any extra second of daylight I will spend outdoors, looking over the ground to spot new growth (spring bulbs in particular)."

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Courtney Barnes

"More than a new hat or a dress or a pillow change-out on the sofa, armfuls of fresh flowers are what really say spring to me," says design blogger Courtney Barnes founder of Style Court. "Especially flowering branches."

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Fashion Must-Have

"Right now I'm thinking of intense blues and dresses and tops with subtle cut-outs. Rag & Bone does a great take on the cut-out with their breezy Alyna dress. Hopefully Amy Adams's Bianca Jagger-inspired style in American Hustle will keep the floppy hat trend lingering a little longer -- I'm on the lookout for a version in straw!"

"Last november my partner and I moved to a new house in South Kensington, in Central London. Since then we have used almost every week-end to travel to visit small towns in England all in the vicinity of London. We will continue doing that with the added plus that now that spring is here all the great country houses in the UK are open again to visitors so we are planning to see quite a few of them. During the Easter week I will be in Harbour Island in the Bahamas, one of the places that I always want to go back to."

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Fashion Must-Have

"I can never have enough chinos (in all colours) and recently a friend turned me onto footwear by Vans and they are the most comfortable thing I have ever had on my feet. I will be buying more and more."

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Farmer's Market Finds

"I consume quite a lot of greens all year round, I look forward now in the spring that most of them come from nearby."

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Favorite Springtime Flower

"It is nice to have the house full of flowers all year round, but it is specially nice in the spring as one can buy according to the natural procession of the season: now in March is daffodils and narcissus and by the time June come it will be garden roses and peonies. I have fallen in love with anything wild, which of course one never picks. They are wild and in the fields they should stay."

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Jan Showers

"Linen print pillows in summery colors," is how interior designer Jan Showers updates her home for spring.

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Must-See Exhibit

"The Carlo Scarpa Show at the Met!"

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Ill Be Toasting the Warm Weather With...

"I still like light reds [in the spring]but I love Domaine Ott in the summer in white or rose and just mentioned my other favorite, CA' Del Bosco and almost any Presecco."

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Favorite Springtime Flower

"I adore all bulbs. Hyacinths are my faborite flower. The scent an the flower takes me back to springs of the past."

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Farmer Market Finds

"Summer vegetables, cream peas, really fresh corn on the cob, fresh okra and there is nothing like fried chicken in the summertime!"

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